In an effort to offer more affordable law school textbook options to law students, several publishers are now offering Looseleaf versions of some or all of their textbook titles. These Looseleaf versions consist of unbound, three-hole punched pages containing the entire textbook content of the respective Hardcover versions. Binders are not included.

What is the benefit of a Looseleaf version?

Not only are Looseleaf items almost half the price of their respective Hardcover versions, but they're convenient: their format allows you to carry around only those portions of the book that you currently need, rather than lugging your entire casebook to every class. Looseleaf items are non-returnable once removed from their original shrinkwrap.

Product Description

This First Amendment Law: Freedom of Expression and Freedom of Religion rests on a straightforward premise: The First Amendment can be viewed as history, as policy, and as theory, but from a lawyer's perspective, it is above all law-albeit a special kind of law. One thing that is special is that the governing texts have receded into the background. The law is the cases, and the cases are the law. Close analysis of precedent is therefore the principal tool of argumentation and adjudication. The purpose of this casebook is to help students to learn the law in a way that will enable them to use it in the service of clients. Several features of the book promote this goal. The cases are edited with a relatively light hand. Notes and questions provide guidance in working with the opinions. The structure of the book-closely tracking the structure that the Supreme Court has imposed-helps to reinforce learning. Non-case materials (including drafts and memoranda from the Justices' private papers) are used to shed light on what was established by existing precedents and how a new decision changes (or does not change) the law.

New features:

• A new section devoted to the Supreme Court's recent decisions rejecting requests to add to the categories of unprotected speech (US v. Stevens, Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Assn, US v. Alvarez)• A reworked section on campaign finance that presents the relevant information in compact, teachable form• A reworked chapter on the relationships between the two Religion Clauses that gives prominence to the Court?s important 2012 decision in Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church v. EEOC• Compact Note treatment of several older cases with sufficient extracts to permit in-depth class discussion

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